Improvement in devices for protecting horses  tails



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Dev-icas for Protecting Horses Tails N0.l48,367. PatentedMarch0.1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

FRANKLIN E. HOVARD, GENESEO, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVICES FOR PROTECTING HORSES TAILS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4S,367, dated March l0, 1874; application filed December 13, 1873.

l of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved device for protecting horses tails in bad Weather, as applied to the same; and Fig. 2 is a rear perspective view of the same detached.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of my invention is to furnish an improved horse-tail protector, which may be placed over the tail, and attached to the saddle or harness, so that the tail is fully protected thereby against mud, dirt, &c., the laborious cleaningof the same in certain seasons prevented, and the beauty of the horse enhanced by the retention cfa softvand clean tail. My invention consists in a bag formed of leather, cloth, or other material impervious 'to mud,the same being slitted to form lapping edges, and adapt it to be readily applied or removed from the tail, as hereinafter described. In the drawing, Arepresents the protecting device for the tail, which is made of rubber,

oilcloth, leather, or other suitable ilexible ma terial. The protector corresponds in size to the length and thickness of the tail, and is Vmade in the shape of a bag or sleeve, which passed through a slot of the lower iiap, and

then through the tail part of the harness or saddle, or Wound around the upper part ofthe tail, and is then conducted back through a slot in the front ilap, and fastened by a buckle. Any other suitable fastening of the bag may be used. The connection of the protector and tail is thus firmly and securely established, so that the detaching of the protector is prevented, and the tail fully protected.

The cleaning of the horses tail, especially during certain seasons of the year, is,- by` the use of this covering device, made less troublesome and laborious, and the beauty of the tail increased, as the hair is not so liable to break off or be whipped off in consequence of neg-- lected `cleaning of the same. The water which may collect in the protecter is carried off by the small hole c at the lower extremity of the same.

The labor and time required for keeping the horse clean are greatly lessened by the use of 2. The combination, with the bag A, of the i fastening buckle-strap B, passing through one of the flaps or lapped edges of the bag, and secured to the other, as shown and described, for the purposes specified.

` FRANKLIN E, HOWARD.'

Witnesses:

CEAS. C. OLMsTEn, N. T. RoRBAcH. 

